A list of things I want to do in the next 3 years.
Start date: Jan. 1, 2008
End date: Sept. 28, 2010
1) Launch my own Web site
2) Visit New England
3) Visit a country I’ve never been
4) Shoot my first wedding
5) Shoot my first maternity shoot
6) Practice the guitar every day for a month
7) Practice yoga every day for a month
8) Pay for the meal of a total stranger (drive thru counts!)
9) Take a picture while standing on the Golden Gate Bridge
10) Ride an elevator to the top of the Empire State Building
11) Run a half-marathon
12) Run a full marathon
13) Read four books a month for six months
14) Purchase a new high-end camera
15) Purchase an iMac
16) Help someone through an international charity
17) Help out a different local charity every month for six months
18) Take a photographer I admire out to lunch
19) Find a professional online site to process my photos
20) Have a neighbor over for dinner
21) Reconnect with an old friend
22) Second shoot a wedding with a photographer I admire
23) Spend an entire day in some capacity with both of my surviving grandparents
24) Become active in the book club I’m only a quasi-member in
25) Read the New Testament
26) Read the Old Testament
27) Cook dinner three times a week for three months straight
28) Really figure out Photoshop
29) Treat my parents to dinner
30) Treat my in-laws to dinner
31) Clean out all our closests
32) Frame the Mark Rothko poster I’ve had for ages
33) Go sledding
34) Swim in the ocean
35) Find a family practice doctor here in Muncie
36) Buy new dining room furniture
37) Make a baby blanket
38) Make a sweater — for me
39) Go to a photography workshop
40) Get a story or photograph published in a national newspaper or magazine
41) Organize our office/den space
42) Get a handle on the filing of our old bills
43) Buy a new (used) car
44) Treat my sister to something nice — she deserves it
45) Switch cell phone companies
46) Sell some of my photos
47) Make business cards
48) Call three friends I’ve haven’t talked to in ages
49) Learn to use the pressure cooker my sister bought me
50) Start my own company
51) Spend a whole day doing nothing but watching movies I love
52) Learn how to knit gloves
53) Learn how to knit mittens
54) Volunteer somewhere
55) Join a church Bible study
56) Plant a garden
57) Plant ranunculus in our flower bed
58) Put flowers on the graves of both my deceased grandparents
59) Learn how to sew
60) Read a work of classic literature I’ve never read before
61) Start a compost pile in our backyard
62) Take a class where I make jewelry
63) Ring a bell for a kettle with the Salvation Army
64) Figure out flash photography
65) Go see a play
66) Go camping
67) Take a gardening class
68) Ride in the Hope Ride in Hope, Ind.
69) Purchase a really great lens
70) Find a new pair of favorite jeans
71) Spend a day babysitting a niece and/or nephew
72) Learn how to swim laps
73) Cook something new from a cooking magazine once a month for six months
74) Play a board game with my husband
75) Find a tandem bike for Nick and I to test out
76) Take a ride in a hot-air balloon
77) Go to a concert of an artist I really love
78) Get my parents on the Internet
79) Give up pop for a year
80) Get new bookshelves for the sun room
81) Get an iPhone
82) Watch a Ken Burns documentary I’ve never seen
83) Go to an art exhibit
84) Get a new desk chair for the den
85) Switch all my bills to online bill pay
86) Replace the roof on our house
87) Identify 100 things that make me happy and make a list of them to keep close by.
88) Mail a secret to PostSecret
89) Vote in the national election
90) Give blood
91) Go three years’ without a traffic ticket
92) Adopt a family for Christmas
93) Meet three online friends
94) Go one week without TV
95) Become CPR certified
96) Watch the entire series of Arrested Development
97) Clean out my Gmail inbox
98) Become a Big Sister
99) Post a video on YouTube
100) Learn how to use Mac’s iLife suite
101) Surprise someone with a bouquet of flowers